About

Hello there! I’m Heather Diane, an illustrator and sign painter at New Bohemia Signs living in Berkeley, California. I created this blog to share my two loves of imaging making and food. This blog is a celebration of all things delicious and I hope you enjoy! If you would like to say hello, or if you have any suggestions please email me at hdhardison@gmail.com. If you would like to check out more of my work, head on over to heather-hardison.com, check me out on Flickr, or follow me on Twitter.

You can hire me! I’m open to most image making opportunities. Shoot me an email, I’d love to chat.

This is fantastic! I just stumbled onto your blog via stumbleupon and I’ve sat here admiring your work for quite some time now. You should consider maybe a fun illustrated cook book! I’d definitely buy it 🙂

My roomate just made your apply crisp. It was DELICIOUS!!!! I poked around on your blog and you have some great advice with a very artistic way of showing what your teaching. Im going to add this to my favorites and try some other recipes you’ve got on here. Thanks so much for creating a blog so unique and artsy! 🙂

really cool 😀 You’re combining just te same hobbies as I do: art and cooking
Even though my boyfriend’s and my blog tries o combine the same feature it’s completely different. I admire xour work and will surely have a few more looks around to get inspired 😉

Hi Heather, my name is Alexandra, I’ve also got a blog here on WordPress. In my blog I’ve got this category titled DISCOVER where I like to feature LOVELY and CREATIVE finds I come across on the web…today I found one of your illustrations on Pinterest and had to put together a post featuring your blog and the fabulous illustrations you’ve got on here. Congratulations on your incredible work and thank you for sharing them with the rest of us through ILLUSTRATED BITES

hi i was reading your recepie for the brioche but i think there is a mistak, you wrote about a cup of lukewarm water and then 1tbs of milk but then at steps

1. Combine the warm milk, honey, and yeast and let it stand until it’s foamy, about 5 minutes.

2. Add the olive oil, eggs and salt, and stir to blend.

Wehre is the water then??? because a tbs of milk for that amount of flour it doesn’t look to be enough. I wondering if has to be a cup of milk and 1tbs of water….thanks because i was thinking to bake them today hope you can answer me

You’re right! Thank you for catching that. It is one cup of lukewarm milk, not water. Then it’s one tbs of milk for the glaze. I’m just so used to starting breads with yeast and warm water, that I let habit take over. Thank you.

thank you too, I liked your recipe looks less complicated than thousand that i read, and i want to be sure i understood heehhe, sorry i hope my comment didn’t sound arsh 🙂 thanks…. I like your blog and your art….hope after your exhibition you will have time to write som more reipe 🙂

Hey there… I follow your blog and I think it’s absolutely fantastic! Just the idea of putting illustrations and your love of cooking together is great. Wish I could do illustrations like you coz I definitely love to cook, then I would also be able to put down recipes into pictures 🙂
Amazing blog. Amazing art. Keep going… we all love your work!

Your blog is a delight especially for a person like me who is so passionate about anything that relates to art and equally about cooking colourful and healthy meals for the family ! Love it and so am ‘following’ !

I just love your artwork! I’ve been looking for unique art to hang in my kitchen & haven’t been happy w what’s out there already. Would love to hang some of your stuff in my kitchen. Keep us posted on your Etsy shop!

Hi Heather 🙂 I stumbled across your blog, and it is now one of my favourites. I have printed two posters of “The Basics of Herbs” which I’ve hung up in my Food Tech classroom at school and at home. I was wondering whether you would consider doing a similar one with spices??? It’s just really handy to refer to 🙂 Keep up the great work!

Congratulations! I have awarded you the One Lovely Blog Award. You have a wonderful blog!
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1. Link back to the blogger who nominated you.
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Check out my site to see the post with the official nomination, meliovore.wordpress.com and pick up the graphic while you are at it.
All the best,
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Hello(:
Wow, I see someone beat me to it when it comes to the nomination! Well, your illustrations are simply the cutest and adding food is genius! So I also nominated you for the “One Lovely Blog” Award(:
Come check it out at http://coffeeantics.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/123/.
Keep up with the amazing stuff!
Anna Garcia

Hi there! I have just nominated you for the Versatile Blogger award. As an artist and a lover of gardening, local produce and healthy cooking, I have really enjoyed your work! Details can be found here: http://blog.laurawooten.com/2012/07/26/thank-you/
Best wishes!

I’m from the East Coast but I lived in Berkeley for the last two years. I love food! I worked at a restaurant in the Gourmet Ghetto in the Epicurious Garden building (maybe we crossed paths and didn’t even know!) I’m now going to school for Culinary Arts up in Washington state and your illustrations are a big help for all the things I’m memorizing. Thanks so much!

Hi! I am a Culinary Arts instructor at a small-town Texas high school. I would love to use some of your work in my classroom. Please let me know what we could work out so that I may print these out to hang on the walls. Thanks!

I love your illustrations! How wonderful, this blog is great and I’m so glad I stumbled across it 🙂
Hope you had a delicious Christmas. I’m definitely following into the New Year, great stuff! Lovely dress too, where did you get it? 🙂

Heather, I love your artwork. You are such a talented illustrator. I haven’t seen a salsa recipe before that requires the salsa to “ferment” on the counter, although the recipe I use does call for white vinegar to help preserve the salsa. Can you supply any links to research the reasons for the fermentation period?

I also believe that “Separation” might be a more appropriate spelling in the last sentence.

Thanks for sharing your work. I hope it’s okay to pin them to my Pinterest boards.

Whoops! Thanks for the spelling note, I’m fixing that right now. The fermentation process is to slightly pickle the peppers through lacto-fermentation. The salt kills bad bacteria and the lactobacillus bring out a slight tang in the flavor. I wrote about it awhile back https://illustratedbites.wordpress.com/?s=lacto+fermentation

Hi Heather! You had me at Illustrated! I LOVE your blog header, it is so cute and it reminds of something that I’d make. I’m an illustrator too from Bombay, and it’s always nice to come across new talent in the blog world. And of course, I have a soft spot for illustrators! 🙂 Can’t wait to start getting updates from your blog. { http://www.jupiterskye.com }

Hi Heather, I know this sounds nasty of me but I rarely write on peoples about pages. But wow I just must do so here because I just came across your blog now and I love your illustrations and ideas, everything is so adorable and cheerful. Take care xx

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Found your blog through a Pinterest pin to your primer on knives; lovely work!!! I’m a dietitian who graduated from San Jose State Univ (possibly before you were born!!!) Have a lovely day and good luck with all your endeavors. 🙂

Hi there – I love your blog, and am going to find it very useful! I do have one request, though … Could you provide a clickable list of categories? I’m currently planning a veggie garden and it would be so handy to be able to access everything you have, say, on specific herbs or vegetables … and come fall I’m going to want to read everything you’ve written about preserving the harvest.